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...three parts, physical, intellectual and moral; yet really the individual is one and is not to be separated. We have noticed for many years that no immoral athlete is trustworthy, and the same proves true in after years, of a man intellectual but immoral. Though perhaps only two per cent. will ever make noted athletes. You can all develop strong, robust bodies. You can strengthen your wills and characters, and in the many opportunities this university affords you can all use your natural talents and gifts. Nor is there need that your lives should be selfish; each can help...
...often said that the tendency of a Harvard education is to make men believers in Free Trade. This does not seem true. Of the 1619 students graduating in the years 1885-92, 1430 expressed party preference, 49.8 per cent. were Republican 25.5 Democratic and 24.7 per cent. independent. Of 153 graduates of Harvard, who have held high office in State or National Government, 114 may fairly be classed as believers in the principles of the Republican party, and 39 in those of the Democrats...
...total number of students was 11,195, while today the number amounts to 15,084, an increase of 4,889 or thirty-three per cent. The rank of the first six colleges during 1886-87 was as follows: Harvard first with 1,688 students; Michigan next with 1,572; Columbia third with 1,570; Yale fourth with 1,134; Pennsylvania fifth with 1,088; Cornell sixth with 1,489. In 1891-92 Harvard still keeps the lead with 2,658; Michigan next with 2,622; Yale has risen to third place with 1,784; Pennsylvania moves to fourth place with...
...California, 84; Princeton, 75; Michigan, 66 3-4; Brown, 65 4-5; Pennsylvania, 62; Yale and Harvard each 57 2-5; Virginia, 51 5-10; Lehigh, 44; Johns Hopkins, 39; Williams, 22 3-5. Columbia stands last, having lost thirty one students in five years, or two per cent. loss...
...degradation of the A. B. degree would be injurious. - (a). To the higher scholarship. The A. B. degree has always been the standard of a liberal education: Pres. Eliot in Cent. Mag. June, 1884, p. 203 - (b). To secondary schools, by fitting poor teachers: Wm. C. Collar in Boston Journal, April 4, 1891. - (c). To Harvard's influence for it reverses her policy of raising the standard, pursued for the last thirty years: Minority...